By: Garry L. Hamilton I continue to see assertions that “speech creates thought” or that “symbols are violence” and variations on the idea that thoughts and actions originate from somewhere besides in one’s own mind. The individual is the origin point for decisions leading to action. Always. The individual is the origin point for thought [...]
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By: Garry Hamilton According to Fox News today, Harry Reid claims the GOP has been taken over by extremists. And I must heartily agree. Because having a job where you make more than 98% of Americans, for the privilege of making rules that apply to everyone but yourself, is what “normal” is all about. Because [...]
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By: Garry Hamilton The following email thread occurred yesterday: Email #1: D: “also, everyone with half a brain knows that the term ‘libertarian socialist’ is both valid and not contradictory.” Just as I thought. You have half a brain. Thanks for the confirmation. We’ll be taking up a collection to buy you a shift key [...]
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By: Garry L. Hamilton The Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution: “[The Congress shall have Power] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.” Over the years, Congress has sought to — and largely succeeded in — expanding the scope of “commerce” to include the growing and [...]
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By: Garry Hamilton Bookworm’s article, here . . . Individualism as a psychiatric illness — what the NPR kerfuffle reveals . . . observes that: For those too young to remember those times, you have to appreciate that psychiatry in America and psychiatry in the Soviet Union were two vastly different things. In the Soviet [...]
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By: Garry Hamilton This is interesting. Blogger Lexington Green – Chicago Boyz – writes I Think I See What Glenn Beck is Doing, wherein he says: Quote: The Glenn Beck rally is confusing people. Why? He is aiming far beyond what most people consider to be the goalposts. Using Boyd’s continuum for war: Material, Intellectual, [...]
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Posted in Authors, Garry Hamilton, Politics on Aug 20th, 2010
By: Garry Hamilton In Bob McCarty’s article about the salon owner, he offers this quote by Teresa Pershall from among his observations: Comparing government officials to “sticks” who are willing to cover up for each other and accept mediocrity as long as it allows them to enrich themselves, she went on to highlight corruption as [...]
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By: Garry Hamilton Today, in her Tea Party Express update, Andrea Shea King quoted Lloyd Marcus in his expression of the mood of American patriots they’ve encountered on their tour. Two words jumped out at me: worry and anxiety. These are emotions we all experience from time to time, and they are universally recognized as [...]
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By: Garry Hamilton Bookworm Room – When no one is an enemy, everyone is an enemy Just so. I might also mention (although I may have said this before) that “terrorism” isn’t about terror as much as it is about anxiety and worry. A human can’t sustain terror, or even fear, for very long without [...]
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By: Garry Hamilton In reference to DHS Sec. Napolitano: “The System Worked” in Failed Bombing of Northwest Flight… ——— Man-caused disasters? What epic fail! Oh, but the good news is that if “Man-caused disasters” are the new “terrorism” then just about anybody who screws up on a grand scale is now a terrorist! Or is [...]
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